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🌇 #DistrictCooling: Europe’s waterways could help cool down cities and replace the need for individual #AirConditioning

#PublicHealth #Heatwave #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCrisis

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6uybbvnd3pfjh5oztjngzdss/post/3mq4f5on54z2y

"..cold river water from the Seine is pumped through one pipe, which runs right next to a secondary pipe carrying warm water from the city’s buildings. A thin metal wall separates them and a heat exchanger allows the heat from the warm city water to enter the cold Seine water without the fluids ever touching"

#Paris #Heat #ClimateEmergency #DistrictCooling

‘Kind of miracle solution’: How Paris is harnessing the Seine to replace air-con | Extreme heat | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/underground-revolution-seine-cooling-network-paris-buildings-heat

While Helsinki isn't exactly experiencing a heatwave currently, we do have some hot spells occasionally. That's why we've built multiple cold water reservoirs under the city over the decades.

Here's one under the very city centre:

https://helij.wordpress.com/2019/11/25/something-surprising-underneath-the-esplanade-park-in-helsinki/

https://yle.fi/a/74-20174567 "Underground 'lake' helps cool Helsinki as demand for district cooling rises"

#districtcooling #energy #greenenergy

#DistrictCooling and other #infrastructure and #archtectural changes can help increase the efficiency of #cooling #systems and radically reduce the #energy such systems use even as exponentially more people in more places are finally able to access the lifesaving benefits of artificially and more naturally cooled air.

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange #solutions abound.

https://youtu.be/sKbEOMCsqaI